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...Author. William Somerset Maugham (pronounced "mawm"), 56, playwright, novelist, essayist, studied to be a doctor, knows how to articulate a skeleton, but prefers to do his dissecting in books. Of medium size and corpulence, with heavy, mustached face, he lives in Cap Ferrat, France, travels widely, stutters, has effeminate men friends. Though he has written some popular books and plays, his cynicism has kept the great public from crowning him a favorite. Says he cynically: "I have never called myself cynical. . . . I've always thought myself truthful." Author Maugham has written: The Trembling oj a Leaf, Of Human Bondage...
Young Comrade Litvinov. The stock control of Lena Goldfields Ltd. is held by a small group of U. S. and British tycoons who maintain the privacy of their identity. Board Chairman of the company in London is Herbert Guedalla, cousin of elegant British essayist-poet-biographer Philip Guedalla. Of the Directors close-lipped Major Frederick Davis Gwynne is easily outstanding. He went to Moscow in 1925 and signed the original terms of the Concession Agreement, a Russian signatory being young Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov who has since risen until today he is Foreign Minister of the Soviet State. Last week...
...Author. Felix Salten, born Saltzmann of Budapest, but a Viennese most of his 60-odd years, is known in the U. S. as a novelist, through recent translations of Bambi, The Hound of Florence. In Europe Schnitzler, Wassermann, Werfel- all personal friends-Galsworthy, Mann, many others acclaim him as essayist and dramatist. Some 20 of his books are appearing in an authorized edition in Vienna; the U. S. will have them eventually in English. Last June found him in the U. S. suffering entertainment with quiet, smiling urbanity. A Jew, he is not a Zionist, disclaims all ists and isms...
Author Frangois Mauriac, 42, militant Catholic traditionalist, poet, essayist, novelist, is a native of Bordeaux who went to Paris as a young man to lead the literary life. One of his books, Desert of Love, was crowned by the Académie FranÇhise. Other books: Thérèse, Destiny...
...Author. Odell Shepard, 46, is critic, poet, essayist. He has written eight books, many poems for the Christian Science Monitor. His activities have included: reporting for a Chicago newspaper, church organist, 21 years teaching. Several years ago he told friends he was working on a new book, The Natural History of Hobby Horses. For the past 13 years he has been a professor of English at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. He may be found during his off hours, walking, bicycling, fishing in the unicornless country about Hartford...